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Max Kukoy, Website Developer

WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT

Max Kukoy has been a Washington, DC based freelance web developer/designer since 2000. Max earned his master’s degree in environmental science from the University of Oklahoma in 1993, then started working in public health and environmental policy at Washington, DC based non-profits. After a few years of policy work, he started working on his organizations web site, eventually deciding to start working as a freelancer under the name maxwebworks.

Sites range from simple database-driven sites, to ones with e-commerce capability. Max uses widely used and supported open source software applications to build web sites. He believes the site should be easy for the client to use and maintain and emphasizes building accessible web sites.

For more, view Max’s website www.maxwebworks.com.

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

    Articles by Max Kukoy